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Assessment of Rapid Response Teams at Top-Performing Hospitals for In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest [PDF]

JAMA Internal Medicine, 2019
Rapid response teams (RRTs) are foundational to hospital response to deteriorating conditions of patients. However, little is known about differences in RRT organization and function across top-performing and non-top-performing hospitals for in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) care.To evaluate differences in design and implementation of RRTs at top ...
Kimberly, Dukes, Jacinda L, Bunch, Paul S, Chan, Timothy C, Guetterman, Jessica L, Lehrich, Brad, Trumpower, Molly, Harrod, Sarah L, Krein, Joan E, Kellenberg, Heather Schacht, Reisinger, Steven L, Kronick, Theodore J, Iwashyna, Brahmajee K, Nallamothu, Saket, Girotra   +13 more
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Mortality of patients with hospital-onset sepsis in hospitals with all-day and non-all-day rapid response teams: a prospective nationwide multicenter cohort study

Critical Care, 2022
Background Hospital-onset sepsis is associated with a higher in-hospital mortality rate than community-onset sepsis. Many hospitals have implemented rapid response teams (RRTs) for early detection and timely management of at-risk hospitalized patients ...
Dong-gon Hyun, Su Yeon Lee, Jee Hwan Ahn, Jin Won Huh, Sang-Bum Hong, Younsuck Koh, Chae-Man Lim, the Korean Sepsis Alliance (KSA) Investigators   +7 more
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Structure of Pre-Hospital Rapid Response Teams to Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear Accidents in Iran, A Qualitative Study [PDF]

پیاورد سلامت, 2023
Background and Aim: The field of pre-hospital rapid response teams is facing major challenges in the field of chemical, biological, radiation and nuclear accidents. Considering that the country of Iran is exposed to the occurrence of these incidents, the
Saeed Nazari, Simin Taj Sharififar, Milad Ahmadi Marzaleh, Sanaz Zargar Balaye Jame, Somayeh Azarmi, Yousuf Akbari Shahrestanaki   +5 more
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Automated alert and activation of medical emergency team using early warning score

Journal of Intensive Care, 2021
Background Timely recognition of warning signs from deteriorating patients and proper treatment are important in improving patient safety. In comparison to the traditional medical emergency team (MET) activation triggered by phone calls, automated ...
Soo Jin Na, Ryoung-Eun Ko, Myeong Gyun Ko, Kyeongman Jeon   +3 more
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The COVID-19 pandemic: resilient organisational response to a low-chance, high-impact event [PDF]

, 2020
The global healthcare sector is currently in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, a ‘low-chance, high-impact’ event which will require healthcare systems, and the organisations within them, to maintain organisational resilience in order to respond ...
Lloyd-Smith, M.
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Responding to unexpected infant deaths : experience in one English region [PDF]

, 2010
New national procedures for responding to the unexpected death of a child in England require a joint agency approach to investigate each death and support the bereaved family.
Blair, Peter S., Edmond, Margaret, Evason-Coombe, Carol, Fleming, Peter J., Heckstall-Smith, Ellen M. A., Sidebotham, Peter   +5 more
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Bedside POCUS during ward emergencies is associated with improved diagnosis and outcome: an observational, prospective, controlled study

Critical Care, 2021
Background Rapid response teams are intended to improve early diagnosis and intervention in ward patients who develop acute respiratory or circulatory failure. A management protocol including the use of a handheld ultrasound device for immediate point-of-
Laurent Zieleskiewicz, Alexandre Lopez, Sami Hraiech, Karine Baumstarck, Bruno Pastene, Mathieu Di Bisceglie, Benjamin Coiffard, Gary Duclos, Alain Boussuges, Xavier Bobbia, Sharon Einav, Laurent Papazian, Marc Leone   +12 more
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Impact of a hospice rapid response service on preferred place of death, and costs [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Many people with a terminal illness would prefer to die at home. A new palliative rapid response service (RRS) provided by a large hospice provider in South East England was evaluated (2010) to provide evidence of impact on achieving ...
A Grady, B Gomes, B Gomes, B Pham, C Butler, C Butler, Caragh Flannery, Claire Butler, Department of Health, DN Guerriere, G Grande, G King, GE Grande, GE Grande, GE Grande, Heather Gage, IJ Higginson, IJ Higginson, J Townsend, JA Cosgrift, JP Raftery, L Stosz, Laura M. Holdsworth, M Mantz, National Council Palliative Care, National Health Service End of Life Programme, O Tamar, Peter Williams, R Addicott, R Addicott, R Gandy, S Smith, Y Asada   +32 more
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Rapid response team diagnoses: frequencies and related hospital mortality

Critical Care and Resuscitation, 2017
To describe the frequency and hospital mortality of problems (diagnoses) encountered by a rapid response team (RRT), and to identify the most common diagnoses for RRT triggers and for treating units.For each RRT event in 2015 at a tertiary hospital for adults, we chose the diagnosis that best explained the RRT event from a pre-defined list after ...
Roger J, Smith, John D, Santamaria, Espedito E, Faraone, Jennifer A, Holmes, David A, Reid   +4 more
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Rapid response team: what factors interfere with your performance?

Investigación y Educación en Enfermería, 2018
Objective. Describe the knowledge in the literature related to factors that influence the performance of response teams. Methods. Integrative review of the literature of articles published in Portuguese, English or Spanish between 2006 and 2016.
Aline A. S. Moreira, Rogiane O. Ramos, Anna Beatriz S. Ligório, Karolina D. Junqueira, Krislainy S. Corrêa   +4 more
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